Oasis Academy Daventry Road, Bristol

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Oasis Academy Daventry Road on 6 areas: 1 expected standard and 5 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The school provides a comprehensive and appropriate personal development programme."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils do not achieve well enough."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Pupils' attendance is persistently lower than what is typical nationally."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "While leaders and staff have rightly raised their ambitions for what pupils can achieve, the curriculum is not taught consistently well."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders typically identify pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities accurately."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Since the school opened, it has faced significant turbulence and challenge."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that the support provided for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities helps them to achieve well"; "Leaders must continue to improve the quality of teaching so that pedagogical choices effectively support pupils to make progress from their starting points"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers have the expertise they need to quickly close any gaps that pupils have in their basic reading, handwriting and mathematics knowledge and skills to provide a firm foundation for future learning"; "Leaders should continue to provide effective support to improve the behaviour and attendance of pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities or who are disadvantaged"; "The trust must continue to support leaders so that the recent rapid improvement across all areas of the school's work is sustained over time".

In its own words: "Being part of the Oasis family of academies, the overarching vision of our academy is to provide 'Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community'. We want to ensure that all of our young people, whatever their starting points or background, get the education they deserve - and they deserve nothing less than exceptional."

From the headteacher's welcome: "A warm welcome to Oasis Academy Daventry Road and thank you for your interest in our academy. As a parent myself, I know that choosing the right school for your child is one of the most important decisions you will make."

For September 2026 entry, 114 families put Oasis Academy Daventry Road as their first choice and 203 named it as one of their preferences, for 135 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Oasis Academy Daventry Road are Oasis Academy Temple Quarter (1 mile); Oasis Academy John Williams (1 mile, Good, Attainment 8 46); St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School (1.1 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 52.6); and Prospect Education Trust (1.3 miles).

Oasis Academy Daventry Road is one of 58 schools run by Oasis Community Learning, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41.1 in 2024/25.

66.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 12.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (74%), Mixed (7%) and Black (6%).

In 2026, 89 pupils (24.6%) received SEN support and 29 (8%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

Oasis Academy Daventry Road had 23 teachers in 2026, one for every 11 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical secondary school, at about one for every 17.

The nearest railway station is Bedminster Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Barnabas Close (sw-bound), 30 metres away.

In 2024/25, Oasis Academy Daventry Road issued 280 suspensions, 107.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Oasis Academy Daventry Road are Oasis Academy Connaught (0.3 miles), Knowle Park Primary School (0.3 miles), E-ACT Ilminster Avenue Academy (0.4 miles) and Oasis Academy Marksbury Road (0.4 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.